Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's a place in Texas that allows individuals to participate in the parade.

Randy Neugebauer

President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

Ralph Nader

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

Shane Carruth

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

Sissy Spacek

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

John Waters

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

John Steinbeck

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

John Steinbeck

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

John Steinbeck

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place...

John Steinbeck

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

John Steinbeck

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Nolan Ryan

I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).

Norah Jones

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

Michael Caine

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Ted Cruz

I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

Ted Cruz

I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Michael McCaul

Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

Michael McCaul

Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

Henry Rollins

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

Henry Rollins

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Jackson Rathbone

I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Ray Thompson

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

Rick Perry

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

Rick Perry

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

Rick Perry

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Rick Perry

Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.

Ron White

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

Ron White

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

Stephen Colbert

Texas governor Rick Perry has been in the race only three days, and he's already blowing away the competition like it is a trespassing coyote.

Thomas Haden Church

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

Thomas Haden Church

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.